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By Nicolas Tohme
Daily Star correspondent
Thursday, June 16, 2005
TRIPOLI: As the fourth and final electoral
battle approaches, Zghorta MP Nayla Mouawad
said Wednesday "Syria and its Lebanese
security and authority allies are attempting
to paralyze the Parliament." Mouawad, who is a
candidate in elections this Sunday said these
attempts are being made via "a security bloc"
formed by an opposing electoral list.
She accused Syrian intelligence agents of
pressuring "former officials who used to fall
under their control, and are now directing
them through threats and various pressures."
Mouawad excluded from her accusations the list
with four candidates of Free Patriotic
Movement's leader Michel Aoun, but attacked
the remaining opposing list for being
pro-Syrian and trying to "paralyzing the
northern voter's decision."
She said the unified opposition's list in the
North "constitutes a national project" for
reconciliation in
Lebanon.
"The list of reconciliation and reform is not
my list, or any other official or party's
list. It is a list for all of
Lebanon," she said.
Mouawad also stressed the importance of
opening files dealing with corruption and
assassination investigations, "on the
condition that each and every one of them is
opened."
She said that for reform to take place,
corruption must be eliminated. Her husband,
late President Renee Mouawad was assassinated
in 1989 soon after he took office. She also
responded to accusations of bribing voters,
saying it is impossible to monitor political
finances without committment in Parliament. |
